My temperament is not geared to that of a novelist.

I started listening to music when I wrote when I had three sons at home.

I'm afraid we live at the mercy of a power, maybe a God, without mercy. And yet we find it, as I have, from others.

There'll always be working people in my poems because I grew up with them, and I am a poet of memory.

My earliest poems were a way of talking to somebody. I suppose to myself.

Back then, I couldn't have left a poem a year and gone back to it.

Meet some people who care about poetry the way you do. You'll have that readership. Keep going until you know you're doing work that's worthy. And then see what happens. That's my advice.